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Markham, Pickering, Scarhorongb, and WMtby; and the west riding <strong>com</strong>prises<br />

the townshijjs of Albion, (.'aledon, Cliin^uacoiisj', Toronto (iorc, ami<br />

Toronto township. Tlu' Home District is sitiuited nearly in the centre of the<br />

F'rovince, and is bonnded on the east by the Xewcasth' and ( "olljorne Districts;<br />

on the nortli by the Sinicoe District, Lake Simeoe, and Lake (joii^ncliiti ; on the<br />

west by the Sinicoe, Wellington, and Gore Districts; and on the south by Lake<br />

Ontario. Tlic Home District has been settled about fifty year.s, and in 17'.»'J it<br />

contained only 224 inhabitants.<br />

This district <strong>com</strong>prises a great variety of soil, and also a considerable difference<br />

in point of climate; the townsliipsbord'/ring on Lake Sinicoe being about<br />

530 feet above Lake Ontiirio. 'J'he land for from two to thive miles back frnm<br />

the margin of Lake Ontario, is generally rather poor and sandy, with the exception<br />

of the cedar swamps, the soil of which is very rich. As you recede from<br />

the lake, the land improves in (juality; and at from four to five miles i'vinn the<br />

lake you fre

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